I got a pun, but it is pretty bad. Please, bear with me. This is way more moe than Sword Art Online; the moe is so high with this one that it is unbearable. Like and subscribe for more bear puns every week.
Now that I have your attention. Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear revolves around a 15-year-old Yuna. One day, upon returning home, she is hyped for a new update for her favorite world's first VRMMO, World Fantasy Online. Ever since the game service began one year ago, she quit going to school and just passed time doing absolutely nothing, but playing the game. After the server’s maintenance has been performed and a new update has become online, Yuna meets either a GM, or an NPC, telling her that all the players may receive a loot box and the reward will depend on how long they have been playing the game. Yuna receives a kuma costume, which she finds embarrassing at first, but later quickly forgets about that feeling, when she sees the stats of this costume, which are quite high. Having received the costume, she is also asked to take a survey: her attitude towards real life, her opinion on the game, if she believes in God and finally if she finds the kuma costume cute. Finally, she logs in the game and finds out that she wears that detestable kuma costume and receives a mail from some mysterious person. That person welcomes her in the new world, since she finds real life too boring. ‘Enjoy your new life, wearing the costume, you do not like, in a world, in which you are sent by someone, you know nothing about.’ Things become complicated, when Yuna finds out that she is now not in a virtual reality, but rather in a real world.
One thing that anime has taught me is that whenever a mysterious person asks you if you believe in God, you should always say ‘yes.’ Otherwise, you might face the same fate as Tanya von Degurechaff. Anyways, it is unclear, who sends Yuna in a parallel world, where you can easily die and will never return home, but one thing is obvious. Whoever sends Yuna in a new world, has either a good sense of humor, or does not appreciate her attitude towards life, because the only thing the girl cares about is games. Anyways, Yuna is a beautiful girl, which she does not realize. She has long dark green hair and pink eyes. She is also incredibly lazy, because she is a genius. She is only 15, but she already can make billions of yen from stocks; she gives almost one million dollars to her parents for them to let her play the game she likes that much.
And so, she finds herself in a new world, she knows absolutely nothing about. Who sends her in that world and why, Yuna does not care much about it, because she finally finds the world she likes. Although, far from being perfect, Yuna still tries to make things right and the best thing about it is that sometimes she will need to use her wits, rather than just raw power, which makes this manga unique.
Other than that, this is a very enjoyable read. This is something more of a slice of life than an action, however, there are plenty of action scenes and Yuna, unlike many other overpowered isekai protagonists, also uses her high intelligence to help people. With that being said, the manga, while does offer a somewhat unique look at the genre, it does not have that many new things to offer to the reader, hence it is a well-deserved 8/10.
